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I said the kids were "kind of" back in school. My daughter had been complaining about her ear bothering her. She had also been kind of sniffly. The wife thought it was just allergies, but this morning the girl was complaining her ear hurt worse. So, the wife is keeping her home and will try to get her into the doctor's office.
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The pork butt I smoked yesterday came out really good. Which isn't unusual. Normally we do russet potatoes in the air fryer as a side. However, those take a while, and the wife was driving all day. Instead, I had bought some baby potatoes and oven-baked them. Kept it simple and seasoned them with some olive oil, salt, cayenne pepper, and garlic powder. Those came out pretty good as well.
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Speaking of those meds.....
When the wife and girl were leaving for CVS yesterday afternoon, they had a surprise visitor jump into the wife's car with them. A little poodle thing. No collar, so they took it with them and brought it to the nearby pet store to see if it was chipped.
It was not chipped.
So they came home, and the boy, the girl, and our neighbor went around the neighborhood looking for the owners. And they found them. So the dog is now safely ensconced in it's home.
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And we had a pretty decent scout meeting last night. I ran two Boards of Review. So that's two more scouts who have advanced in rank. Both are decent kids. One is a bit older, but he's really starting to mature a bit. The other was already a pretty good kid, but I expected that because his dad is a good dude.
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My supervisor is back in the office today. A client typically has him on site every Monday and Tuesday. So this will be the first day for him in the office with the new Lead Mechanical. I think he wants all us Mechanical's to go to lunch. I may or may not.
It'll depend on how my GI system is faring. And on the timing. I've got a webinar I signed up for from 11 to noon.
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I did have one negative point. I took part in a webinar from the company that runs the software we use for Horizontal Directional Drilling calculations. It was all about their move towards developing an "AI" to assist with analysis. I was hoping there would be demonstration of the actual product. I was disappointed.
Still, it did allow me to fill an hour with something and not be bothered while doing it.
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Not expecting much today. We are getting a package out, but most of the work on it is already done. In fact, it should be ready to go out this morning. We shall see.
There were hardly any comments on the previous package. Mostly just adding a description for teflon coating to stud bolts. That took all of maybe half an hour.
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I finished Daredevil Season 2 last night. I had forgotten how much I dislike Electra in that series. Not the character, but the actress. I never thought she fit the role very well. Nor the way they rewrote the character as some French diplomat's daughter, instead of her father the Greek Diplomat. And that whole Black Sky thing was kind of silly.
Still, overall it was a phenomenal season. Bernthal was great as The Punisher.
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And I think he might have originally come from Iran. Or there abouts. Judging on his name anyway. I shall have to be subtle in my questioning of him. Or find some other, slightly surreptitious way to determine his point of origin.
I'm kind of hoping it's Iran. It might be neat to have discussions with him about some of the interesting places in that country one can visit. I had similar discussions with Swapnil about his home country of India.
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The rain we've been having around here has really caused a mess with all the pollen crap that's ended up on the ground. It was all going to come down anyway, but the weather seems to have accelerated it.
Hell, just the other day the lawn guys cleaned it all up, and within a hour it was a mess again. Stoopid pollen.
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It was a busy night for TV.
First, the wife and I finished up Reacher season 3. Overall, the season was decent, but I'll never watch it again. The female lead they brought in was annoying as hell. She adopted this idiotic Boston accent, and was overall a poor character. And the overall story had lots of very stupid plot holes. The action scenes were pretty decent, though.
Second, we watched the first 3 episodes of the third and final season of Bosch Legacy with Titus Welliver. It's been a minute since season 2, and we were beginning to think they'd never finish it up. So we were surprised a few weeks ago when we saw an announcement about season 3. So far, it has not disappointed.
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And I was happy to see that the chick who was head of Amazon Studios has been fired. She's the idiot who brought us the abomination that is Rings of Perversion. And she's the a-hole who put the kibosh on a Conan series (though maybe that was a good thing). It's my understanding she also screwed up the Wheel of Time adaptation.
I know the press release about it said she was being given "first look" at some TV and movie options. From what I've seen over the years, that's Hollywood speak for "you're fired".
Good riddance.